How is this drive's speed\etc. compare to the newer Lexar USB-drives nowadays?
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I no longer use recent manufactured Lexar's; reliability seems to have gone down hill. I've had 5 Lexar's go bad this year. My budget drive of choice at this time (sold by Amazon & others) is the Corsair Slider.
6778
It was quit fast and I used it to add extra memory for my Xbox 360, but it died and will not work now. I did get a several good months from it though.
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I got about 300 MB/s, which is about half of the max speed but it was plenty fast. If you are connecting the USB 3 wire to an external USB 3 hard disk, and not doing hard disk intensive work on your main OS drive, I think you will get about the same rate of transfer speed while moving large files. Good luck!
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I can get 30mb/s over gigabit with jumbo frames and two drives in raid 1. There's a lot of variability depending on if you're moving one large file or many small ones. I don't know if this is due to my drives or the nas.
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This is Amazon, buddy. If you want info that detailed, google a site that reviews flash drives. I will say that this drive is insanely fast transfering large video files (175mb to several GB's) compared to every other drive I've tried, including: HP v125 USB Flash Drive P-FD4GBHP125-AZ SanDisk Cruzer USB Flash Drive SDCZ36-004G Kingston Digital USB 2.0 Hi-speed Datatraveler Flash Drive DT101G2/4GBZ All of these drives would write at a sustained 3.2 MB/s which was painfully slow and this Patriot drive does 17.5 MB/s. It's over 5x faster.
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I bought this for my iMac that did not have USB3. Hence, I cannot benchmark it against USB3. It performs as expected -- very fast. I can keep the drive saturated with writes at 125+ MB/s. I am happy with the purchase.
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Per a review by PC Magazine on June 21, 2012, after it was first introduced, this USB 3.0 drive out paced its closest competitors, even running on a USB 2.0 connection. On a USB 2.0 connection it tested out at a 29.5 Mbps write speed versus about a third that for each of its two closest competitors at the time (Kingston and Verbatim). Similarly it produced read speeds of 31.7 Mbps, about one and a third to one and a half the speeds faster than its two closest competitors. And course it REALLY soared on a USB 3.0 connection! SanDisk makes this drive in three sizes: 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB. While they are essentially equivalent, there are apparently very slight performance differences due to size and configuration. PC Magazine noted that when running on a USB 3.0 connection they might have been running so fast they were bumping up against the limits of their test PC. (I really love my own SanDisk Extreme 64GB!)
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Hi Bandi, Technically, your drive is capable of making disk-to-host transfers of up to 110 MB/s, and USB 2.0 maxes out at 60 MB/s, where USB 3.0 maxes at around 125 MB/s. Your drive will probably never reach 110 MB/s, but I would suggest using a USB 3.0 enclosure so that your drive can run as fast as it pleases. Besides, at some point you'll probably upgrade even your "backup drive", and you'll want the speed. On a personal note, I love this enclosure. You'll need to buy some little rubber feet from the hardware store to keep it from sliding around, but other than that, it's great! Jack
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I bought the 480GB and the speeds are pretty awesome read about 6GB (SSD) and the 250 (originally built in) over USB 3.0 about 3GB/S Hope this helps
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Can't say anything specific about DVD movies (you mean ripped files?) Performance has been great, just as you'd expect for USB3. I've also tested it's backwards compatibility with USB2 and it was fine. Overall, it's a very simple plug-and-play drive with no issues.
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There are a lot of things that can affect the speed. I use WD red drives which are relatively "slow" drives, but I use my Synology units for disk imaging and not just direct file storage, speed is less important than reliability. Using this system in a true RAID fashion will also be slower than simply using the individual drives as storage locations.
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It's been a while, but as I remember, it came only with a USB cable, the drive is fantastic, and when I plug the USB cable into my new PC with USB 3 ports, it does run much faster than when I had it in my old PC with USB 2 ports and eSATA. On my old PC, the eSATA was much faster, but on the new one, even though the drive is rated USB 2, it is quite fast. Like others here have said, on Amazon, you can buy an eSATA cable for very little.
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yes; but USB connection is slower than regular hard drive. However, if you use eSATA connection, it's speed is just like your internal drive.
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Depends on the configuration... If you don't change the RAID setup, it should be faster than a single 4 TB drive because it distributes the writing and reading across the two drives.
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I have a used this drive with a 64 GB card and 128GB there has been no trouble with it being read and the speed is the same as the 32 GB cards I have used with the Transcend Information USB 3.0. Hope this helps out.
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I haven't seen any flash drive faster than this. I tested this and R/W 194/170. so, you won't regret.
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Tested by AS SSD Benchmark software, the read speed is 120MB/s and the write speed is 77MB/s for Lexar 1000x CF.
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The drive works well. USB 3.0 is faster only if the computer being used is too. The drive is slightly smaller than WD, Toshiba, etc. But it is not significantly smaller or faster than a like WD. I think WD comes in 2TB for about the same price.